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Update on Ukraine with Focus on Reconstruction and Recovery
Apr. 03, 2024 12:10 p.m.
Ellen Yount will join us to provide insight into the latest issues associated with the reconstruction and recovery efforts associated with Ukraine. Given her extensive international work experience (see below), Ms. Yount is uniquely qualified and informed to help us make sense of this complicated and fraught situation. Ellen Yount has served in a variety of senior leadership positions at MSI for more than a decade, focused on Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery efforts and regional donor-funded activities. During her 25+ year career in international development, she has focused on governance, strategic communications, capacity building and gender. She has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout the developing world, living in former Yugoslavia for nearly six years. She served as the country director for the International Republican Institute (IRI) in Serbia and Croatia during a historic period that ushered in democratic changes. Ellen returned to the U.S. to work as USAID’s chief spokesperson and director of media relations and subsequently as the Agency’s press director in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the intervention in Afghanistan and the Iraq war. For 13 years, she served as a senior advisor to the Legislative and Public Affairs Bureau at USAID. Previously, Ellen served as former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge’s Press Secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as his director of communications in Harrisburg. She is a Board member of the Vermont Council of World Affairs; a global Ambassador for RefuSHE; a member of the Board of Trustees at Allegheny College; and the President and Founder of the One Connected Village Foundation, which invests in girls’ and women’s programs in East Africa and Vermont. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. |
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Apr. 13, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
FOOD DRIVE APRIL 13, 2024
The Rotary Club of Essex will be holding a food drive at the Price Chopper Essex on Center Rd. April 13th from 9am to 2pm. Donated food will be collected to benefit the Heavenly Food Pantry in Essex Jct. The Heavenly Food Pantry serves approximately 80 families per month in the Essex Community. It is an essential food program to help feed our hungry neighbors.
Please go to PC on April 13th and help Rotary collect non-perishable food items. Rotary Club members will be present to assist donors with info about the specific needs for Heavenly Food Pantry. Many thanks to Matt Lumsden Real Estate who is lending their box van to transport the collected items to Heavenly Food Pantry. |
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Apr. 13, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Hockey - Golf Handoff and "Charge Up" for Essex Rotary's Largest Fund Raiser
Apr. 17, 2024 12:10 p.m.
It's time to start process that will lead to a successful Golf Tournament on June 12th - the Wednesday between our two June meetings. Over 130 golfers, in teams of four, will enjoy the Links at Lang Farm course through a shotgun start. Lunch and a BBQ bracket the day. Essex Rotary members who aren't playing staff the event, making sure players have a great day. And, we're doing all we can to guarantee a sunny, calm day!! Chris Kasper, the Golf Committee Chair, and his Golf Committee are well into planning and organizing. They ask members to seek sponsors - usually at the hole sponsor level - to make our event a fund raising success. And of course, Chris and Jason Ruwet, Chair of the Hockey Committee, will "perform" the annual Hockey to Golf handoff. Which makes me wonder, should we have an annual "Golf to Corn" handoff?? |
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Committee Chairs and Members will share committee based activity
May 01, 2024 12:10 p.m.
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May 04, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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The annual golf putting contest will highlight this quarterly social gathering at Black Flannel
May 15, 2024 5:00 p.m.
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Students from Essex HS, Mt. Mansfield HS, and Essex Center for Technology Are Awarded
Jun. 05, 2024 12:10 p.m.
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Jun. 12, 2024 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Major Essex Rotary Fund Raiser
Jun. 12, 2024 12:10 p.m.
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Rotary Leadership Changes at the End of the Year
Jun. 19, 2024 12:10 p.m.
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Aug. 23, 2024 3:00 p.m. - Sep. 01, 2024 10:00 p.m.
For the 28th year Essex Rotarians will sell freshly cooked corn at the Rotary Corn Booth during the Champlain Valley Fair from our yellow and green booth adjacent to the grandstand. If you stop by on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26 from 2 PM to 5 PM, you may meet Miss Vermont and Miss Teen Vermont, who will be helping us sell our corn and raffle tickets! Last year, the young kids loved to meet her. But, there is MORE!! I just said raffle tickets! This year, we will hold a RAFFLE with prizes donated by area businesses. Tickets will be available ONLY at the Corn Booth for $1 per ticket and 7 tickets for $5. What can you win: QUILT: Donated by a long-time quilter and Essex Rotary member GIFT CARDS: Healthy Living; City Market; American Flatbread; Jericho Café & Tavern; Matt's Wash and Wax (Jericho); Salt & Bubbles (Essex Experience); Poor House Pies; Brew House Coffee; Lucy & Howe Brewing. PASSES: ECHO (4 sets of 4 passes); The Strike Zone, MetroRock DISCOUNTED ROOM: Sinclair Inn B&B (Jericho) What will we do with funds raised: Essex Rotary’s Charitable Fund donates to charities in our communities (Essex Town, Essex Junction, Westford, Jericho and Underhill) and in Vermont and to student post-secondary scholarships.
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Aug. 30, 2024 - Sep. 08, 2024
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Sep. 21, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Rotary Club of Essex will be holding a food drive at the Price Chopper Essex on Center Rd. on September 16 from 9am to 2pm. Donated food will be collected to benefit the Heavenly Food Pantry in Essex Jct. The Heavenly Food Pantry serves approximately 80 families per month in the Essex Community. It is an essential food program to help feed our hungry neighbors.
Please go to Price Chopper on Saturday, September 16 between 9 AM and 2 PM and help Essex Rotary by donating non-perishable food items. Rotary Club members will be on-site to assist donors with information about the specific needs of our neighbors who use the Heavenly Food Pantry. Many thanks to Matt Lumsden Real Estate who is lending their box van to transport the collected items to Heavenly Food Pantry.
Note from Food Insecurity Committee Chair, Tim Gendron - 9/5/2023
Now that the 10 Best Days of Summer and corn boothing are behind us it's time to focus on another service opportunity. The Food Insecurity Committee has planned an essential food drive on Saturday, September 16th at the Price Chopper in Essex. This will be from 9am - 2pm and will benefit The Heavenly Food Pantry which is in dire need of our help. The food pantry regularly runs out of food to help the needy people and families in our community.
We need up to 10 volunteers to sign up for one or two hour shifts to greet shoppers and hand out flyers listing needed food items and up to 5 volunteers to fill boxes in the truck. We also need 2 volunteers for a half hour to unload the boxes at Heavenly when the food drive ends. This is a fun-filled event where you get to greet and meet some very friendly and generous shoppers from the Essex area and spend some quality time with other dedicated Rotarians.
Please, please consider volunteering for this much needed service or at least making a donation of food items or a monetary donation. There are a couple of collection bins around town. One is at Kaitlyn Raymond's State Farm office on Upper Main Street on Route 15 and the other is at the Community Bank on Pearl St. in Essex Jct. provided by Dijana Downing.
I will have a signup sheet with me at Wednesday's luncheon meeting. I may tap you on the shoulder to solicit your assistance.
WE NEED YOUR HELP. (Those of you who are proficient with social media please post the heck out of this to quickly spread the word.)
2022 Event Report from Tim Gendron:
Dear Fellow Rotarians,
On a Beautiful Saturday, October 1, 2022, our Rotary Club held another food drive to benefit the Heavenly Food Pantry. There was a wonderful response by our community to support this service project as we filled 34 boxes of non-perishable food items and goods. A rough estimate is approximately 900 pounds collected and delivered to Heavenly.
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